Dominic Sandbrook

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

So what does it mean for the United States?

I think the Trumpist style of politics, as Tom, I think, says, is not going to go away.

That's partly because of the changes in the media ecosystem.

They reward kind of Trumpist politics.

I think there are other structural causes.

There are a lot of people who feel disenfranchised by deindustrialization.

There are a lot of people who feel alienated from the culture of the big cities, for example.

People who feel left behind or whatever, people who feel angry about immigration, for example.

Again, those things are not going to change.

So where does it leave the United States?

I mean, arguably, you might say it leaves the United States where it's always been for two reasons.

Number one, I think populist politics has always been a distinguishing feature of American political life.

Far more so than in Europe.

I mean, there is populist politics in Europe, of course.

But the sort of populist rhetoric of the common man against the corrupt elite, that is hardwired into American political culture.

I mean, Richard Hofstadter pointed that out more than half a century ago.

So I think that's one aspect.

The other aspect that I think is so interesting, a historian called Felipe Fernandez Ernesto wrote a few years ago a book in which he said, maybe it would be interesting to look at the United States.

Instead of looking at always in isolation from the other successor states to the American colonial empires, why don't we look at it as one of them?

Is it so different from Mexico, from Argentina?

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